Like a lot of the podcasting world, we beloved the Rodecaster Professional when it launched towards the top of 2018. It’s taken a half-dozen years, however microphone-maker Rode is lastly extending the user-friendly line into the world of video.
The Rodecaster Video faces a lot stiffer competitors than the unique Professional board did. On this post-pandemic age of video-first, lots have launched comparable gadgets. It additionally has a excessive price ticket to take care of at $1,119 — practically double the Professional’s $600 asking value.
Rode is trying to loop in the identical novice class it attracted with the primary Professional: Successfully those that are interested by upping their video manufacturing recreation, however not able to commit a full professional rig.
Whereas the Professional focuses completely on in-person audio podcasts, nevertheless, the Video casts a wider internet, starting from solo Twitch streamers to multi-person in-studio video productions. The brand new mannequin is extra compact than the unique, because it’s meant to be sat in entrance of a pc, relatively than the center of a podcasting desk.
It incorporates a pair of Neutrik jacks with pre-amps for XLR mics, coupled with 4 HDMI and two USB-C inputs, permitting customers to modify between video sources in actual time. Audio processing, in the meantime, consists of EQ, together with a compressor, high-pass filter, de-esser, and noise gate.
It could possibly mechanically cue out inexperienced and blue screens, change audio between video sources and stream to “all main platforms” by way of Wi-Fi or hardwired by means of Ethernet and USB. It could possibly additionally document on to a related exterior onerous drive.
“For many years, our mission has been to empower creators with skilled but accessible audio tools,“ CEO Damien Wilson says in a launch. “Groundbreaking improvements just like the Rodecaster Professional and Wi-fi GO have modified the way in which that folks method creating content material throughout a number of classes, putting studio-grade audio options inside the attain of at this time’s creators. With the Rodecaster Video, we’re doing the identical for video manufacturing.”
The Rodecaster Video is up for preorder beginning at this time. It ships October 10.
